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November 28, 2012

China builds road right around "nail house" as owner Luo Baogen refuses to sell

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People stand near a house sitting in the middle of a new main road on the outskirts of Wenling city in east China's Zhejiang province, Nov. 22, 2012.
People stand near a house sitting in the middle of a new main road on the outskirts of Wenling city in east China's Zhejiang province, Nov. 22, 2012. / AP
In the middle of an eastern Chinese city's new main road, rising incongruously from a huge circle in the freshly laid pavement, is a five-story row house with ragged edges. This is the home of the duck farmer who said "no."